Fuck Yeah Caitlin Moran

THIS IS NOT RUN BY CAITLIN MORAN A Call for Context, Moderation, and Calm. Because Caitlin Moran is our hero. Professional fangirl. Role model. User of CAPS. Woman. We are her 'Little Wankers'. Although this is not so much a fanpage as just a collection of her words and pictures on Tumblr. RECOMMENDED READING Her Twitter / The Times / Wikipedia HOW TO BUILD A GIRL On Amazon / Hive / AdLibris (useful Nordic shop!) HOW TO BE A WOMAN On Amazon / Official Site MORANTHOLOGY On Amazon / Official Website MISC NYAN CAT But who is that man on your background??

[fuckyeahcaitlinmoran]

Caitlin Moran in today’s Times. Originally posted by @NotRollerGirl [x]

[ecait21]

I am full of how great life is. I am so happy to be alive. That the point of life, is joy - to make it, to receive it. That the earth is a treasure box of people and places and song, and that every day you can plunge your arms in and find a new, ridiculous, perfect delight.

- Caitlin Moran, How To Build A Girl (via ecait21)

[christymtidwell]

…my biggest secret of all—the one I would rather die than tell, the one I wouldn’t even put in my diary—is that I really, truly, in my heart, want to be beautiful. I want to be beautiful so much—because it will keep me safe, and keep me lucky, and it’s too exhausting not to be.

Caitlin Moran, How to Build a Girl  (via christymtidwell)

[christymtidwell]

…it is a million times easier to be cynical and wield a sword, then it is to be open-hearted and stand there, holding a balloon and a birthday cake, with the infinite potential to look foolish… . I haven’t yet learned the simplest and most important thing of all: the world is difficult, and we are all breakable. So just be kind.

Caitlin Moran, How to Build a Girl  (via christymtidwell)

[fuckyeahcaitlinmoran]

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[mysharona1987]

[jaynedolluk]

It will never not be oddly touching that, of only four Beatles who ever existed, one of them (George) persistently gave off the aura of finding the whole affair extremely vexing and something infinitely less preferable to mowing the lawn of his mansion on his sit-on tractor while wearing a hat.

Caitlin Moran on the Beatles (via jaynedolluk)

[beylor1-deactivated20161212]

I am for the birds. I don’t care if I come back to a house that is empty, if I can step outside and find the sky full. In the hours where I wish to treat myself after I have paid my alms and given my thanks for good fortune - I skulk around websites, wondering if I’ll buy myself a pearl necklace, gold curtains, a pair of green brogues. But what I really want to do is buy myself birds - tens of birds, hundreds of birds. To greedily click on cuckoo, and sparrow, and finch, and thrush - to have a box arrive, by hatted courier, and to cut the knotted strings, and watch a cloud of them rise up, bursting, and fill my garden with the rightful things of a garden: feather and song; the crack of a snail on the stone; broken eggshell; the hymning of rain and sun. But my garden is empty. I am Gatsby, alone, melancholy - playing birdsong on my laptop, by birds that died a long, long time ago.

Caitlin Moran, I miss the birds [x] (via croptopswift)

[elliot-trans-trex]

If you can’t save yourself from attack by being powerful - and I, palpably, have no power; my hands are empty - then perhaps you can save yourself from attack by being ruined, instead. Blow yourself up before the enemy gets to you.

How To Build A Girl, Caitlin Moran (via ilovestarkidtoomuch)

[camewiththeframe]

So. Yes. We’re all dying. We’re all crumbling into the void, one cell at a time. We are disintegrating like sugar cubes in champagne. But only women have to pretend it isn’t happening. Fifty-something men wander around with their guts flopped over their waistbands and their faces looking like a busted tramp’s mattress in an underpass. They sprout nasal hair and chasm-like wrinkles, and go ‘Ooof!’ whenever they stand up or sit down. men visibly age, every day — but women are supposed to stop the decline at around 37, 38, and live out the next 30 or 40 years in some magical bubble where their hair is still shiny and chestnut, their face unlined, their lips puffy, and their tits up on the top third of the ribcage.

Caitlin Moran, How to Be a Woman (via camewiththeframe)

[all-mymistakes-deactivated20171]

But in life two things happen: amazing things, and things that are terrible but will make incredible anecdotes.

Caitlin Moran (Marie Claire, October 2014)

[recycledsoul]

"All my life, I’ve thought that if I couldn’t say anything boys found interesting, I might as well shut up. But now I realize there was that whole other, invisible half of the world—girls—that I could speak to instead. A whole other half equally silent and frustrated, just waiting to be given the smallest starting signal—the tiniest starter culture—and they would explode into words, and song, and action, and relieved, euphoric cries of, ‘Me too! I feel this too!’”

Caitlin Moran, How to Build a Girl, Ch. 9 (recycled soul)

[camewiththeframe]

Because I haven’t yet learned the simplest and most important thing of all: the world is difficult, and we are all breakable. So just be kind.

Caitlin Moran, How to Build a Girl (via camewiththeframe)

[drums-of-autumn]

I am lying in bed, next to my brother, Lupin. He is six years old. He is asleep. I am fourteen. I am not asleep. I am masturbating.

How to Build a Girl by Caitlin Moran (via a-books-opening-lines)

[bookish-thinking]

For in a way that feels quite unfair, the only way I can gain any qualifications at this thing - sex - that is seen as so societally important and desirable, is by being a massive slag - which is NOT seen as societally important and desirable. This often makes me furious. You wouldn’t denigrate a plumber with a lot of experience in fitting bathrooms!

Caitlin Moran “How to Build a Girl” (via love-a-book)

[annfriedman]

Caitlin Moran interviewing Courtney Love in 1992 = peak Gen X white feminism?

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[theneverendingteaparty]

The scabs feel like I have a message on my arm. Something that needs to be read, urgently, by someone. It was only years later that I realized the person I had written that message to — the person who wasn’t listening — was me. I was the one who should have been staring at that arm, and working out what the red hieroglyphics meant. Had I translated them, I would have realized those lines read: “Never feel this bad again. Never come back to this place, where only a knife will do. Live a gentle and kind life. Don’t do things that make you want to hurt yourself. Whatever you do, every day, remember this — then steer away from here.”

HOW TO BUILD A GIRL by Caitlin Moran (via theneverendingteaparty)